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Member #90,020,016 · 2011-05-17 → 2011-05-23
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@fyooo

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Member Number #90,020,016 Joined 2011-05-17
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#1,070 of 6,691 by Dispatches (7 notes) · #1,557 by Thread Reach (273,637 cumulative reads)
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Member #90,020,016 · Joined 2011-05-17
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10.X Core
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @fyooo contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“I really have no idea what's causing that problem and now you found the culprit. my bad, I totally missed that and to be honest, at first look I wouldn't have thought that would cause a problem.. my observation, I may be wrong. .. and indee…”
10.X Core2011-05-23
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BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“you searched in the wrong file, the log entry will be in kernel.log can you also post here the output of ifconfig after the kext is loaded? adlan, thanks:) Once again And nothing found in kernel.log:”
10.X Core2011-05-20
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BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“try loading it using kextutil with high verbosity level and put its output here sudo kextutil -v 4 BCM5722D.kext Thanks, that's what it shows: After that, I checked the system.log file: It seems to be success, but I still can't connect to i…”
10.X Core2011-05-19
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BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“fyooo You fix it where you installed the kexts. chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext touch /System/Library/Extensions I'd tried to use KextHelper to install this …”
10.X Core2011-05-19
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BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“you need to change the kext ownership/permissions , else kextd will not load the kext. sudo chown -R root:wheel BCM5722D.kext sudo chmod -R 755 BCM5722D.kext Thanks, adlan Maybe I should show my NIC information first: 14e4; Broadcom Corpora…”
10.X Core2011-05-18
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BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“If the kext is loaded, it should at least shows a build date/time. So that means the kext isn't loaded. Actually I didn't have the chance to see the image of error message you posted before, can you post it again? I just tried to load this …”
10.X Core2011-05-18
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BCM5754/M,BCM5755/M,BCM5787/M,BCM5906/M NIC driver for 10.6 (32/64)
“I can't see anything about BCM in my system.log and even my /var/log directory bash-3.2# pwd /var/log bash-3.2# grep BCM * bash-3.2# ls /System/Library/Extensions/BCM5722D.kext/Contents/ Info.plist MacOS Resources bash-3.2#”
10.X Core2011-05-17
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